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Cowans Auctions: Discovery Sale

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Auction Name Discovery Sale Total Sales (USD) 20,445.10
Auction Date January 19, 2014 - January 19, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 26,850.00
Sale Number #306 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 46,290.00
Total Lots 275
Sold Lots 231 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 32,990.00
% of Lots Sold 84.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 56,195.00
Unsold Lots 44 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 36.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
205

Abraham Lincoln,

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 763.75
129

Albumen Photograph of Major Robert Anderson's Library

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 440.63
253

Actor Flint Kennicott, Personal copy of

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 411.25
324

Group of Circus Posters,

 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 411.25
83

Assorted Silver Gelatin Photographs and Photo Postcards of Hopi Pueblo

 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
303

Wilkinson's Ancient Egypt

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.88
373

Paiute Captain

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 352.50
374 Harmon Percy Marble

Harmon Percy Marble (American, 1870-1945) Photographs and Copy Photographs

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 352.50
499

Limited Edition Fascimile of 1611 Edition of The King James Bible

 20th Century. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 352.50
174

[Cased Images] Group of Daguerreotyptes, Ambrotypes, & Tintypes of Men, Women, & ChildrenA

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
189

[Curved Mount] [Great Britain & Ireland] Huge Lot of Great Britain & Ireland Stereoviews by Keystone, et al.

 Not Available USD 323.13
230

James Monroe Signed Land Grant

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 323.13
243

Charles George Gordon, British General, ALS

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 323.13
369

W.F. Taylor Cabinet Card of An Omaha Man & Wives

 Ca 1990 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 323.13
397

[Western-Cased Images] Cased Tintype of Western Fi

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 323.13
481

Alaskan Mail Carrier

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
172

Half Plate Ambrotype of Gentleman in Patriotic Garb

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 293.75
127

Civil War Ambrotype of an Armed Soldier

 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 264.38
203

Abraham Lincoln Cabinet Card Photograph

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
315

Group of 17th-19th Century Newspapers

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 264.38
338

Large Group of Civil War Era Printed Event's Invitations,

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 264.38
372 Edward Curtis

Edward Curtis Photogravures of American Indians

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 264.38
478 John McRae

The Marriage of Pocahontas

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 264.38
173

Two Sixth Plate Daguerreotypes of Children Taken During the Same Sitting

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 235.00
247

Cabinet Card Portrait of Well-Dressed Man Identified as the Famous Boxer,

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 235.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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